Taking the Plunge-Resolution
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Mon Nov 3 19:18:47 CST 2003
open up a shell (either from the gui or command line),
go to the directory where you have downloaded the file,
'untar -xvzf' it into a temp directory (optionally untar where it is),
change to the directory created by the untar command,
<optional>
read the install notes and modify any of the following
instructions for specifics in the install notes,
read any readme files,
</optional>
run make as a non-root user,
run make install,
<optional>
edit the KDE/gnome/whatever-gui menu system to reflect the new app,
make a link on the desktop of the new app,
</optional>
use it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Needham [mailto:jmneedham at kc.rr.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:00 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Taking the Plunge-Resolution
>
>
> Hello all:
>
> This concludes the threads:
>
> Taking the Plunge
> Taking the Plunge Version 1.1
> and
> Taking the Plunge-Still
>
> I have a fully operationg SuSE 8.2 system up and running and
> I am writing this
> e-mail from Kmail :-) Thanks for all that helped me get here
> and for all the
> suggestions made.
>
> I am still doing tweaking however, and need some help. I am
> wanting to run an
> MSN messenger client and the included Kopete crashes... I
> downloaded a newer
> client called AMSN and wanted to use it but it needs compiled
> (is only
> source) never done this... has a makefile and just need
> direction on how to
> compile her... I suppose it is gcc that I will be using :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
> J. Mike Needham
> jmneedham at kc.rr.com
> Shawnee, KS 66214
>
>
>
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